Cleveland port hires first environmental manager

The Cleveland port aims to be a leader in cutting-edge environmental practices with its latest hire.

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority has hired veteran environmental planner Pamela Davis as its first environmental/sustainability manager, at a salary of $72,000.

Davis, of Lakewood, was senior environmental planner at the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, which distributes federal transportation money and oversees air-quality planning in five counties.

At the port, she will manage practices affecting polluted runoff, air emissions and water quality.

She also will spearhead environmental planning for the port's proposed move from land west of Cleveland Browns Stadium to a man-made peninsula north of East 55th Street, said port President Adam Wasserman. The move could start in about a decade, port officials have said.

Port officials want the new port "to be as green as possible," Davis said.

Wasserman also wants her to be a player in efforts to tackle top environmental issues at Great Lakes ports, such as how foreign ships handle the release of ballast water that could contain foreign species.

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